Chords for Christy Nockels -The Thrill of Hope- Advent Hymn(Song Story)

[Ab] _ _ _ Well from the [Eb] very beginning when I first [Ab] started writing for this record, I really wanted this whole record to be a story
Rather than it just [Fm] being a compilation of my favorite Christmas [Eb] songs or whatever.
[Db] So
Also as a worship leader
I was sort of doing [Ab] some research and I really saw [Db] that there was not a [Ab] whole lot of
Advent songs for sort of that beginning
Expectation part of the story [Eb] and [Ab] so I started looking through and I found this beautiful old hymn
But it's not one that we've sung in America.
This hymn is called the morning [Db] hymn [Ab] or Christ
Whose glory fills the sky which is actually originally [Fm] by Charles Wesley written
[Eb] You know [Db] hundreds of years ago and I've always loved the tune [Ab] and I love the lyrics and [Db] so this is [Ab] adapted
From that in it.
He calls Jesus the day star or [Eb] the day spring [Ab] and I love that and I actually found this
Beautiful [Eb] verse in 2nd Peter 1 it's 19 through 21
[Fm] It says we also have the prophetic message [Db] as something
Completely reliable and you will [Ab] do well to pay attention to it as to a [Db] light shining in a dark place
Until [Ab] the day dawns and the morning star rises [Bbm] in your hearts
[Ab] Above all [Eb] you must understand [Ab] that no prophecy of scripture came about
By the prophets own [Eb] interpretation of things for [Ab] prophecy never had its origin in [Db] the human will [Ab] but prophets
Though human spoke from [Fm] God as they were carried along [Eb] by the Holy [Db] Spirit
And I loved when I found that where it talked about [Ab] the morning star
Rising [Db] in our hearts and [Ab] to I think this entire record
I felt such a sense of looking at the whole thing through [Eb] the eyes of Advent, [Ab] which I've learned is actually
[Eb] Waiting kind of putting ourselves in that place [Fm] as they would have you know, two thousand years [Db] ago out of this
Silence came [Ab] this cry this baby's cry and it broke that [Db] silence
Dark and cheerless is the morn [Ab] until your love and us is born
That's part of the song and [Bbm] I love that just [Fm] sort of that anticipation [Eb] again
But [Ab] then the other part of Advent I've learned is looking [Eb] at this story even
[Fm] From the point that he's returning again
[Db] And I love this reminder from Peter [Ab] that the prophecy being fulfilled
It's [Db] not something that was from human will but it [Ab] was spoken straight from God and it's been carried [Bbm] along
by the Holy Spirit and I [Eb] felt that [Ab] sense as I was writing this whole record and I'm really glad in the end that
It is what it is because it's really what I was dreaming of when I